Arizona-based Salt River Project (SRP), one of the nation’s largest public power utilities, has
selected Emerson
to modernize the controls of multiple hydropower units and its central service center. SRP provides electricity to 1 million customers in the metropolitan Phoenix area and is also one...

CIRCOR International has completed the previously announced
acquisition
of Fluid Handling (FH) from Colfax Corporation for approximately $693 million of cash and newly issued CIRCOR shares, and $150 million related to the assumption of pension plan liabilities linked to the FH business. FH will become...

The U.S. chemical industry is riding a global wave of growth as the world’s major economies experience an upswing for the first time in a decade. Increased output and accelerating growth rates that surpass the previous twenty-year average will help cement the business of American chemistry as ...

“Americans are expected to end the year pumping oil out of the ground at rates unseen since the early 1970s. More and more of it is going overseas, giving OPEC a headache as the group restrains its own output,”
Bloomberg
reports
.

Orders for manufacturing technology kept their momentum in October 2017, gaining 6.3% over September to a total value of $428.32 million, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report from The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Year to date, orders are up 7.6% comp...

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) released the results of the Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2017, showing manufacturers’ optimism has risen to unprecedented heights amid the legislative progress made on tax reform. With 94.6% of respondents saying ...

Flowserve Corp. announced that its Board of Directors has named Mark A. Blinn, 47, as its next President and Chief Executive Officer, beginning October 1, 2009 and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately.

The company also announced that Lewis M. Kling, the company’s current President and Chief Executive, whose previously announced retirement is scheduled for February, 2010, has been elected Vice Chairman of the Board effective October 1.